Churches; Journalism; Menard County (Ill.); Petersburg (Ill.); Presbyterians; Social Work

Plews recalls life in Petersburg, Illinois, her husband Dr. Thomas Plews, and describes her house. She discusses working for a newspaper, helping with her husband's medical practice, and helping others. Also discusses her book Some Interesting...

Sayre discusses rural life in Petersburg and central Illinois during the 20th century: farming, homemade foods, home entertainment, family life, marriage, divorce, and children. Also discusses her volunteer work and the Lincoln Memorial Gardens.

Lincoln writes a bill which appoints McHenry, Solomon Penny, and Myram Penny as "commissioners to view, mark, and locate a state road from Beardstown in Cass County...to Petersburg in Sangamon County" and to make and file maps and reports of the...

Armbrust recalls her childhood on a farm near Petersburg in Menard Co., Illinois, grade school at Indian Point, butchering, and food preparation. She also discusses nurses training at Deaconess School of Nursing in Lincoln, Illinois, classmates,...

Weldon Gerdes, farmer on the Sangamon River near Petersburg, Illinois, and his son Gary discuss living near the river for 50 years, floods, levee construction, fishing and recreation, wildlife, pollution, Springfield's Lake Two, the Sangamon River...

Bertha Craig discusses life along the Sangamon River at Petersburg, Illinois: the floods of 1926 and 1943, fishing and swimming, plants and animals along the river, Lake Springfield, Lake Petersburg and its dam, farmer's dams, and home remedies.

Bertha Craig discusses life and in Petersburg, Illinois during the early and mid 20th century. She recalls growing up as an illegitimate and interracial child, her family, racial discrimination, African-Americans, poor whites, and work as a...

Fifty-eight citizens of Sangamon County petition the Illinois legislature to locate a state road between Petersburg and Waverly. Lincoln writes the title of the petition and the names of three preferred viewers.

Petersburg (Ill.); United States. Navy; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Africa; World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Europe

Turner, WWII veteran and businessman, discusses his boyhood in Petersburg, Illinois, his family, atteding Petersburg-Harris High School, and fraternity life at the University of Illinois in Urbana. He also recalls his Navy Air Corps service in WWII...